#9 OF 12 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

# 9 OF 12 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"
IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - Fri. July 27/18

Chapter Four - The Liberal Jesuit from Latin America 55-57

    Jorge Bergoglio is the first pope to come from the Jesuit order. That is one of the keys to understanding his liberal papacy and the cachet that he enjoys in the eyes of global socialists. As a liberal Jesuit from Latin America, he is seen by the left as the quintessential "progressive" priest.

    Once a bastion of orthodoxy and discipline, the Jesuits fell under the influence of socialism and modernism in the 20th century. By the time Bergoglio entered it, the order was rapidly moving to the left, both politically and theologically. "I was very, very undisciplined," Pope Francis has said. In another era, that quality may have disqualified him from the Jesuits. In the 1960s, it made him a natural fit. Bergoglio was a protege of Pedro Arrupe, head of the Jesuits from 1965 to 1963, a period of unprecedented liberal ferment within the order. Arrupe had grown up in Basque Spain, like the founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius of Loyola.

    This led conservatives to joke in the 1970s about Arrupe's liberalism: "One Basque founded the Jesuits, another one is going to destroy them." But to liberals, he was a "refounder of the Society in the light of Vatican II."

    "I remember him when he prayed sitting on the ground in the Japanese style. For this he had the right attitude and made the right decisions." Pope Francis recalled. Compared to St. Ignatius of Loyola, a strict disciplinarian. Arrupe was enormously permissible, allowing socialism, loose morals, and liturgical irregularities to spread through the order.

    By the end of his tenure, the politics of the order had become so embarrassingly left-wing that Pope John Paul II decided to intervene personally in its internal affairs. He rejected Arrupe's chosen successor and sent his own personal delegate to lead the order until a more appropriate replacement for Arrupe was found. Explaining the unprecedented move, a Jesuit spokesman at time acknowledged  that Pope John Paul II "wants the Jesuits to be more religious and not to get involved in politics."

    The politically minded Bergoglio was an ideal candidate for the Arrupe-era Jesuits. He had grown up in Argentina , where he was exposed to & inspired by communist and left-wing political influence.

"It is true that I was, as my whole family, a practicing Catholic. But my mind was not only occupied with religious inquiries, for I also had political concerns, even though they did not go beyond and intellectual level, "he said. "I read "Nuestra Palabra y Propositos {Our Word and Resolutions} and was enchanted with all of the articles of one of its conspicuous members - a well-known figure of the world of culture - Leonidas Barletta, who helped me in my political formation.

    The publication to which he refers in this quote was put out by the Communist party of Argentina, and Barletta was a communist filmmaker. {Bergoglia has also spoken fondly of a communist teacher from high school, who questioned us  about everything."}

Bergoglio was more of political activist than a Catholic intellectual. He started doctrinal studies but didn't finish them. {As pope, he told fellow Jesuit, "Study fundamental theology is one of the most boring things on earth."} Bergoglio became a Jesuit in 1969 and quickly rose to a coveted leadership position in the order under Arrupe. At the merge age of thirty-six, he was made provincial superior of the Jesuits in Argentina. "That was crazy," Pope Francis has said.

    Arrupe had identified Bergoglio as a rising liberal star in the order. Like Arrupe, Bergoglio was imbued with the liberal zeitgeist after Vatican II and followed his lead in opposing armed Marxism but making allowances for its theoretical variants within the Latin American Church. In 1980, Arrupe produced a feeble letter titled "On Marxist Analysis," which blessed a measure of Marxism within the Jesuit order, provided that it made an attempt to shoehorn Christianity into its message.... Vatican officials were perplexed by the mixed message of Arrupe's letter and didn't care for his alarmism about anti-communism, which was evident in this passage from it.

George H. Kubeck

P.S. I'M A GRADUATE OF A JESUIT COLLEGE.IN 1952. AN ARRUPE JESUIT IS NOT A SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA JESUIT.